More evidence that AI is hindering student performance

[Scott Hotes]

This article came out today in The Daily Californian:

Failing grades soar as professors see greater AI usage, dwindling math skills in UC Berkeley computer science classes

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.html

Some quotable quotes:

UC Berkeley teaching professor Dan Garcia taught both CS 10, “The Beauty and Joy of Computing,” and CS 61A, “The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,” in spring 2026. Garcia believes the “primary driver” of these abnormally high failing rates is due to a “vast increase in academic dishonesty” due to students’ usage of large language models, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

Should we be worried?!

Scott

[Ipse Dixit]

You weren't already?

[Warren Tighe]

According to my AI, there's nothing to worry about.  Therefore, the worrywarts must be hallucinating.  

On Friday, June 5, 2026 at 3:28:34 PM UTC-7 Ipse Dixit wrote:

You weren't already?